Share datas between two apps with iOS 8 App Groups (using NSUserDefaults)

Question

I wonder if we can share datas between apps with the new iOS 8 feature : App groups (using NSUserDefaults) - Or if App Groups only share datas between the main app and its e

Answer 1

Check out this thread on the Apple Developer Forums: https://devforums.apple.com/message/977151#977151

I believe that both instances need to use the group ID (initializing with initWithSuiteName:) or else they are reading/writing to different user defaults sets.

So your Swift code would change to:

var userDefaults = NSUserDefaults(suiteName: "group.com.company.myApp")
userDefaults.setBool(true, forKey: "Bool")
userDefaults.synchronize()